This Is What They Took From You.
But Now They're Returning It.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A few years ago, people did a meme. Semi-seriously, they would post "This is what they took from you" and post pictures of stuff from the pre-Obama world, before the American "elite" traded stable, functional Americana for third-world dysfunction and leftwing postmodern slop.
The first one of these I saw was the pleasing roofline of old Pizza Huts:
We need a reboot of the universe. We need to roll back the country's programming to its Last Known Good Configuration, erasing every update since 2000.
Is that possible?
Well, if we all insist on it, it is.
Pizza Hut brings back its old-school restaurant features as nostalgic customers rejoice: 'So excited'Back to the good old days.
2026 has proven to be the year of nostalgia. Youngsters are resorting to old-school tech like vintage flip phones and iPods. Others are returning to analog hobbies and activities.
Even beloved restaurant chain Pizza Hut is going back in time, reverting to its retro glory -- red checkered tablecloths and all.
Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, a Kansas-based company that operates almost 100 Pizza Hut locations across the country, is helping keep Pizza Hut alive by rewinding the clock and redecorating over 80 annoyingly modern, stark-looking locations to make them look like they did decades ago.
Red roof? Check
Red-checkered tablecloths, vinyl booths and Tiffany-style lamps? Check, check and check.
Pizza Hut is attempting to stay alive by evoking nostalgia in customers and redesigning locations back to its original look. jetcityimage -- stock.adobe.com
The beloved salad bar and red plastic cups will be back.
Even the old-school Pac-Man machines will return.
Unsurprisingly, customers are losing their minds over this massive change.
"I am so excited and when they are restored I will be eating there as a new tradition every Friday," one wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
"This was our Thursday night meal out before kids. Salad bar and pac-man. Waitress knew our order too. It would be nice to return to that atmosphere in our retirement too where you can have an audible conversation while in a restaurant," another wrote in a Facebook comment.
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Confused Mentally-Stunted Sexual Assaulting Bigot Don Lemon: Stephen Colbert Was Fired for the Same Reason I Was -- Because Mediocre White Men Are Threatened by Pardiagm-Shifting Epochal Black Talents Such as Myself and Colbert
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oh man, I used to do this exact "I'm looking forward to not watching" joke with John Ekdahl. RIP.
Ancient fraud Bruce Springsteen appeared on Colbert. A lot of old time nostalgia acts do appearances at leftwing charity events. He continues speaking with a faux southern drawl despite being from Freehold, NJ.
He babbled in his trembling, Joe-Biden-like voice:
"I'm here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke.... and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about"
Speaking of John Ekdahl, he was fond of noting that NJ taxes property categorized as "farmland" and a much, much lower rate than residential property. So Man of the People Bruce Springsteen planted a few lines of alfalfa on his gigantic property in Rumson, NJ -- a beautiful town for the ultra-wealthy, and not farm country at all -- so he could claim his mansion was a "farm" and cheat the taxpayers.
Jon Bon Jovi does the same.
On to bitter DEI failure Don Lemon. Courtesy of John Sexton, the no-talent nobody narcissist goes full Me-Again Kelly and makes Stephen Colbert's well-justified firing all about shimself.
He claims he was fired because The Mediocre White Men Who Control Everything were too afraid of the powerful, dangerous questions he was asking.
The networks didn't like me asking conservatives hard questions. CNN didn't like the mirror I was holding up every night. So they pushed me out. And I thought: if it happened to me it will happen to others. It will trickle down. Or up. Depending on how you look at it.
Now it has trickled all the way to late night television.
Sexton points out he was fired for repeated comments deemed by liberal women to be sexist, including declaring that no woman older than 40 could be "in her prime" and his snide and dismissive on-camera and off-camera behavior towards his two female cohosts. Sexton points out it was liberal women at CNN who demanded his firing.
And of course, his terrible, terrible ratings made that an easy demand to meet.
The no-talent DEI bigot who has been given undeserved promotion after undeserved promotion by white liberals who just get off on promoting unqualified DEI employees and then bragging about it to their liberal mistresses says that the white men he owes his living too were just afraid of black revolutionary intellectuals like himself and Stephen Colbert.
The world that produced The Late Show, the world of legacy media, cable news, and network television, has long had a problem nobody wanted to name out loud. It is a world that has been extraordinarily good to a very specific kind of person. White men who fail spectacularly and are promoted for it. White men who make catastrophic decisions and are handed bigger offices for it. White men who are visibly, demonstrably unqualified and are given more power anyway. I have watched it for thirty years. I have been managed by it. I have been undone by it.The executive producer who ran The Late Show for years eventually left. And somehow landed in my world. That same person, from that same television orbit, eventually became my boss at CNN. And fired me.
Oh go rub your balls and stick your fingers in a server's face, Don.
Though it has to be acknowledged that while liberals talk endlessly about DEI, they sure don't insist on DEI for their late-night clowns.
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Tucker Carlson Is Spiraling and Sperging Over The Crushing Loss of His Nazi Pal
—Disinformation Expert Ace
John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNCMay 20
Massie's biggest mistake was likely believing that social media is real life, that people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones had managed to wrest enough influence from Trump that seeking their good opinion was the only constituency he needed to win over.
Well, he and they lost by ten points.
'Influencers,' eh?
As a great man once said, "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means."
Sean Davis @seanmdavWhy did Massie lose tonight?
Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him was voting against OBBB in 2025 because, according to Massie, it did too much to secure the border.
Trump mercilessly trashed Massie in 2020--calling him a "disaster" for America and Kentucky and saying he should be thrown out of the GOP entirely--but Massie easily swatted that away and won 81-19, so you can't say he only lost because of Trump. He went toe-to-toe with Trump on COVID in 2020 and won overwhelmingly.
Massie lost because he went from being perceived as a quirky but lovable nerd who seemed to genuinely believe everything he said, to looking like a clout-chasing influencer who cared more about getting TV time with Democrats on an issue he clearly never cared about until five minutes ago than he did about representing his voters.
We'll never know what caused the apparent personality change--maybe it was the death of his wife, maybe it was the McCarthy race followed by McCarthy's ouster, or maybe it was a desire for notoriety or media acclaim and a lucrative podcasting career outside of Congress--but the drastic change was undeniable, as was the seeming lack of interest in much of anything happening in Kentucky.
Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame Epstein, blame the tragic death of a spouse, I don't care. But you cannot just wave away 2020 Massie going face-to-face with the Trump machine and winning in a rout only to get smoked six years later.
Massie's voters didn't really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.
Taqiyya Qatarlson rejects these explanations. For him, the failure of his Nazi agenda means that the Republican Party is dead, MAGA is dead, and America is a conquered nation controlled by evil Jews in Israel.
Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzraTucker Carlson says the Republican Party is officially dead after it colluded with a foreign country to buy Thomas Massie's seat.
He says it is immoral to support the current Republican Party because it supports the killing of children and is now against free speech.
"It's the end of the Republican Party we had."
Because the faggot that this faggot supported lost, that means that "democracy is fake."
Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_Tucker Carlson: "This is the saddest moment in a long time. It’s not just the death of Thomas Massie's immediate political career. It's obviously the death of MAGA, whatever that was. but it’s also of course the end of the Republican party. Nobody supports this"
This is what all the NeverTrumpers said as they flounced in 2015-2016.
Taqiyya Qatarlson also claims the election was stolen by "mail in" ballots. He says he has no evidence of this, but invites the Nazi losers who watch him to do their own "sleuthing" and prove his conspiracy for him.
This is Candace Owens' business model -- invent a fake and gay conspiracy theory, then tell her legions of "mommysleuths" to gather non-existent evidence to prove it.
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Lazy Leftist Zillennials (Including Grandma Taylor Lorenz) Discover a New Right: The Right for People to Order Expensive Food on DoorDash for Every Single Meal
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I use DoorDash and the others too much. And when I do, I feel kinda bad about it. Once in a while is one thing, but ordering out multiple times per week is -- here's a word that Gen Z and the Millennials need to learn -- indulgent.
And lazy. It takes about 45 minutes to batch cook simple meals for 3-4 days. And it's cheap. Yes, eggs are more expensive now, but when I batch cook scrambled eggs with ham, pepper, and onion, it costs about $20 to make five meals.
But Taylor Lorenz, joined by a bunch of basket-case lazybones "spooners" -- people who claim they only have a few "spoons" of energy during the day so society will just have to carry them on their backs -- begin arguing that some people don't have the "ability" to cook and are just too tired to take any steps to feed themselves besides pushing a few buttons on their phones (and begging their parents to send them more money).
Boy these "young" people sure are "tired" a lot, aren't they? Kind of like Joe Biden. Who is 84 years old.
If Joe Biden tells me he's too tired to cook, I get it.
If a twenty-something layabout who works an "email job" tells me she just can't find the time or energy a couple of times per week to make scrambled eggs or fry up burgers and put them in the fridge to be microwaved later... well a lot f 23 year olds are just ready for retirement, I guess.
Put them in group homes and put up tall walls around them. Wouldn't want the senile young invalids wandering off.
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Crime Skyrocketed During Biden's Open Borders Regime and Plummeted During Trump's Deporation Regime But I'm Sure This Is All a Right-Wing Coincidence, Racists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And the real numbers, for once in five years, are great.
The FBI released preliminary crime data for 2025, and the numbers are stunning. Violent crime fell at a rate not seen in nearly a century, and the man overseeing the bureau is the same one the left has been trying to torch for months.
Murder and non-negligent manslaughter dropped more than 18% nationwide last year. Aggravated assault fell more than 7%. Rape declined nearly 8%. Robbery cratered by about 18.5%. All told, violent crime dropped about 9.3% overall; there were roughly 1.1 million fewer violent crimes than in 2024."The 2025 crime data in this report shows the single largest decrease in violent crime and murder since 1937 -- as well as huge decreases across the board in terms of aggravated assault, rape, and robbery," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a statement.
Property crime wasn't far behind. It dropped by about 12.4%, translating to approximately 5.2 million fewer property offenses than the year before. The data comes from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which pulled information from more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies -- covering roughly 96% of policing across the country.
This is what happens when you have a tough-on-crime administration running the country.
Patel credited the transformation happening inside the bureau. "Over the last 14 months, we made major transformations at the FBI, and these results show those changes are working." He also pointed to his "back the blue" commitment -- backing law enforcement rather than undermining it -- as central to the approach.
Matt Margolis points out that this is the reason the left is so insane to take out Kash Patel with absurd attacks: They need the pubic to believe that crime is just the cost of doing business and nothing can be done about it, so Shut Up Racist Peasants and Accept The Occasional Beating from a Lunatic Homeless Thug or Rape by a Criminal Illegal Alien.
If Trump and Patel are successful in driving down crime, the public is aware this isn't just the cost of doing business. It's a choice, and one we can choose against.
Steven Miller made that point about Democrat Disaster Governance:
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Dr. Oz: Minnesota is Still Refusing to Turn Over Evidence of Their Looting of the American Treasury
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Nick Sortor @nicksortor🚨 NOW: Dr. Oz confirms Minnesota is STILL NOT COOPERATING with federal anti-fraud efforts, despite over $350 MILLION in federal funding being withheld
Clearly we need to be withholding EVERY PENNY then.
I'm so sick of being scammed by Walz and his Somalis.
JD Vance @JDVance14h
Today, the task force and the DOJ announced a massive take down of two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota state history, as well as the largest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the federal government. Our message is simple: if you're committing fraud, we will find you, and we won't rest until justice is served.
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THE MORNING RANT: Election Prediction Markets Are Now Push-Poll Mechanisms, not Gauges of Likely Election Results
—Buck Throckmorton
As Ace wrote about a few days ago, voters in the state of Georgia chose two state Supreme Court justices in Tuesday’s election. Although the “non-partisan” candidates couldn’t identify by a political party, in each race there was a clearly defined conservative and liberal. The conservative candidates won both races. While the big election takeaway is that Georgia is not going to get a “Wisconsin court” that will serve as a left-wing super-legislature, there is another big takeaway - the election prediction markets are now total garbage that should be completely dismissed.
Polymarket and Kalshi are among the biggest “prediction markets,” making it possible to trade/gamble on the likelihood of a specific candidate winning an election. In recent years these prediction markets have been treated as a form of polling. The assumption is that people gambling on election outcomes have their finger on the pulse of the electorate, and that they will rationally put their money on the candidate mostly likely to win.
Apparently these prediction markets were relatively accurate in predicting some prominent races in recent years. But political partisans are not rational, and liberal political obsessives have started putting money on their favored candidates so as to move the prediction market odds in their favor. They somehow believe those distorted odds will become real-world outcomes.
This is analogous to when I was a little child going fishing with my dad, and he told me that when the bobber goes under water it means I’d caught a fish. My little brain soon discovered that if I reeled the line in toward the rocks of the jetty we were fishing from, the bobber would go under water! That must mean I caught a fish! No, I merely had an underwater snag. But every time I snagged my line and the bobber was pulled under water by the resistance against my reeling, I still wanted to believe I had a fish on the line.
The Lightbringer himself, Barack Obama, had involved himself in these Supreme Court races, and left-wing political observers were very excited that trading at Kalshi showed the Supreme Court races to be breaking overwhelmingly in favor of the liberal candidates.
In the race between conservative Sarah Warren and liberal Jen Jordan, Ms. Jordan was maintaining about a 55% odds of winning until a few days before the election, when suddenly the odds broke further in her favor. By election day her odds of winning exceeded 90%. Once upon a time this might have meant that traders could sense the election was breaking Jordan’s way and they were therefore gambling heavily on the likely winner.
But the conservative candidate won. In fact, Sarah Warren crushed Jen Jordan by winning 61% of the vote to Jordan’s 39%. In the other race, won by conservative Charles Bethel, traders at Kalshi had his opponent, Miracle Rankin, as the likely winner at odds exceeding 80%.
At this point, using prediction markets to measure voter sentiment is as worthless as relying on candidate-produced push-polls, whose purpose is to influence voter sentiment, not measure voter sentiment.
When partisans move a betting line in the hope it will affect the election’s outcome, that is like snagging a fishing line so as to pull the bobber under water, and then pronouncing that a fish is about to be reeled in.
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) May 3, 2026
Other Stuff I’m Writing About
My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “There’s No Reason to Fear an Invasion of Chinese Electric Vehicles” discusses the preposterous media narrative that Americans will fall in love with Chinese EVs if/when they hit the U.S. market, and that Chinese auto manufacturers will capture significant U.S. market share.
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The Morning Report — 5/ 22/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well it's scum on parade once more, so a day ending in "Y" here at the Morning Report. First, I was remiss (though truth be told I never came across any links, believe it or not) in neglecting to note the passing of one of the most singularly reprehensible and destructive individuals to hold elective office in the past 50 years if not in our history. That would be the former congressman from Massachusetts the late and unlamented Barney Frank.
Besides running a teenage male prostitution ring out of his home, he was one of the key architects in the collapse of the housing market and the tanking of our economy in 2008 among other Democrat/Leftist catastrophes that we are still digging our way out from the rubble lo these many years later... His worldview and voting record over the ouse of his career are a testament to Democrat/Leftist scietal destruction in pursuit of absolute power. Period full stop. Odd that on his deathbed he publicly chastised his party for the positions it held and advanced. Nearer my God to Thee or an attempt at taqqiya sunrising to prevent future Democrat electoral wipeouts?
Barney Frank Warns the Left is Destroying Democrats . . ."Many of my colleagues who I know agree with me but are inhibited from saying so.”
As I recall the spoof ditty created by Rush Limbaugh to the tune of Abba's "Dancing Queen" referring to Frank as The Banking Queen, let us move on to the next subject in the "Conga Line of Freaks" per old Yeller Mark Levin, shall we?
Congressional Democrats are moving to shut down President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, escalating a political fight over compensation for Americans who say they were targeted by politically motivated prosecutions and federal lawfare.Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, is introducing legislation aimed at preventing any federal money from being used to create or distribute payments through the fund. . .
At the same time, some establishment Republicans are also voicing opposition to the fund. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told reporters Wednesday that he would “try to kill” the program.
. . . Supporters of the fund argue it represents a long-overdue effort to compensate Americans harmed by politically driven prosecutions and abuses of government power.
Critics, meanwhile, claim the program would improperly use taxpayer money to compensate individuals tied to controversial investigations, including those connected to the January 6 Capitol protest.
Two law enforcement officers who were present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 have already filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the fund entirely.
Well as to Jamie Raskin, Cancer is as cancer does. He and his party led by Malig-Nancy Pelosi either directly engineered and orchestrated the events of 1/6 or else created the conditions and fiction that Trump was inciting an insurrection when it was in fact an entrapment sting to create that pretext and illusion to oppress and suppress the enemies of the Left and Deep State. And GOP confederates like Fitzpatrick et al are equally guilty of perpetuating the corrupt status quo regardless of the consequences to the American people and Republic.
And speaking of which that brings us to the next diseased turd floating by in the punchbowl...
The Senate is heading home until June without finishing a reconciliation bill, after Republican tensions over the package coincided with President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). Brendan Pedersen, a senior reporter with Punchbowl News, posted on X: “Thune asked if Senate Rs are responding to politics — ie, Trump endorsements and snubs this week ‘It’s hard to divorce anything that happens here from what’s happening in political atmosphere around us,’ Thune said. ‘You can’t disconnect those things.’”While Republican Senators publicly claim substantive issues with the bill were the driving factor behind the early vacation, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) acknowledged President Donald Trump’s Tuesday endorsement of Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) weighed heavily on Republican Senators’ minds as they skipped town instead of advancing a top Trump priority as planned.
Yes, the Barney Franks, Jamie Raskins and Malig-Nancy Pelosis we are afflicted with are horrid enough but Thune and his ilk and their criminal fecklessness and naked, shameless collusion with them and farcical kabuki "opposition" as is embodied in the likes of JOHN THUNE and sadly many like him all over the GOP is why our nation is circling the drain, or at least was until enough decent people said enough is enough and elected a man who to greater or lesser extent recognized that were headed off a cliff and now 11 years since descending the golden Trump Tower escalator, he has almost singlehandedly at a minimum put the brakes on and has attempted to throw us in reverse. We shall see if MAGA is indeed the start of the movement for American renaissance or merely a speed bump on the road to Hell.
The rejection of Thomas Massie will go a long way but it's only a start!
Thomas Massie’s defeat in Kentucky’s Republican primary was not merely the fall of one Republican congressman. It was the collapse of an illusion -- an illusion that has grown inside parts of America’s online Right over the past few years: that a few million followers, a handful of popular podcasts, several viral clips, and some anti-establishment slogans can replace party machinery, voter loyalty, local networks, money, organization, and real political power.Kentucky shattered that illusion. Not in a television debate, not in an intellectual quarrel, not in another online shouting match, but in the one place where politics strips away fantasy and reveals itself: the ballot box.
Just like the Leftists, you can expect the voices on the Right to become even more shrill, vulgar and vituperative in their attacks on all of us than even the most strident of Lefties.
Whom we are at long last rejecting for their duplicity and fraudulence in foisting RINO globalists and big government stooges on us. It will be a long time in coming but when all of them are gone from the scene, it will be glorious.
Have a relaxing, fun and safe Memorial Day weekend!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- On the one hand, there is the risk of AI letting rip without thought for the consequences. On the other there is the risk that America’s competitive advantage will be lost and that other countries will make the inevitable advances anyway. Some of this may still sound abstract. But it isn’t going to be for very much longer. I’ve been thinking about this in recent months because AI started coming for me
Douglas Murray: I see dangers of AI firsthand — as people make doppelgangers of me!
- Before the gas chambers came the lies, the laws, and the excuses. . .read this piece again and stop when the circumstances begin to feel familiar.. . Don’t wait... for another Auschwitz to be under construction.
Auschwitz Wasn’t Built Overnight
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Daily Tech News 22 May 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Got up early to get something fixed at worked - looked like a two hour job.
By the end of the day it had clearly turned into a two day job, so that was fun.
- Google is bringing something new to its AI-powered search: Ads. (The Register)
Ads. Lots of ads. On Google.
The websites that Google scours for its content get nothing.
- Six search engines worth trying now that Google has shit not only its own bed but everyone else's bed. (Tech Crunch)
I use DuckDuckGo (have for years) and Brave. DuckDuckGo was originally noticeably less complete than Google, but Google has fixed that by diligent strategic incompetence.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - May 21, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
From Aesthetics
Howdy Hordelings! Thanks for entrusting your need for whelm to the Thursday night ONT. Content provided for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Mystery click - Happy Birthday to Martin Blunt, bassist of The Charlatans
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Thursday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Scanno, Italy
@cristinaproietti_photo
More here
Lazy watchdog. (But he keeps an eye on things, as long as they're directly outside the window.)
Oldster still makes sure his dogs get their exercise.
Kitten tucks herself in.
What did they think was going to happen?
An odd couple but they make it work.
Cats do weird things just to freak us out.
The League of Shadows, but with huskies.
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Republicans Sean Duffy, Brandon Gill Expose Democrats' Fathomless Corruption
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Brandon Gill grills Chicago's radical racist grifter Brandon Johnson.
Johnson has been receiving expensive personal gifts like cufflinks and Gucci bags from people and organizations he refuses to disclose. He says he accepts these personal gifts "on behalf of Chicago," but I don't think Chicago is wearing the cufflinks or toting the Gucci bags. I think it's Johnson himself.
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@GOP_is_GutlessTHE PITBULL BRANDON GILL: "On June 12th, 2023, you received HUGO BOSS cufflinks and a personalized Montblanc pen. Do you know who gave you those?"
Johnson: "So I did not receive those personally. The city of Chicago..."-
Gill: "You received those on behalf of the ciry of Chicago. I understand the difference Do you know who has provided those to the city of Chicago? Do you know who gave those to the city of Chicago?"
Johnson: "So again, on behalf of the city of Chicago, there are..."-
Gill: "It's a yes or no question."
Johnson: "I do not accept. Those are not my personal gifts..."-
Gill. "I'm reclaiming my time here, sir. On March 18th, 2024, you received a Gucci tote bag. Do you know who gave you that? Gave the city of Chicago that?"
Johnson: "Again, I was here and I was invited..."-
Gill: "I'll also take that as a no. On March 19th, 2024, you received a Davinci bag, a Kate Spade purse, and Carucci shoes. Do you know who gave the city of Chicago those?"
What's Chicago's shoe size?
Johnson: "Again, I was brought..."-Gill. "I'll take that as a no. I'm reclaiming my time... This raises serious ethical concerns. You're providing an enormous amount of aid to illegal aliens, aiding and abetting criminals who have come into our country illegally. And you yourself are receiving an enormous amount of gifts, and you won't even tell us who they're coming from. That raises serious ethical concerns."
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John Thune Declares: I Demand a Well-Funded MAGA Primary Opponent In 2028 and I'm Going to Stamp My Little Feeties and Hold My Breath Until I Get It!
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You got it, Princess.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_CBP/ICE funding bill will not be on President Trump's desk by June 1st, as he had said he wanted.
Senate going home. Bad vibes on the Hill today.
Supposedly this is over his pique at the weaponization compensation fund, but, as with Thomas Massie discovering the Epstein files for the first time weeks after Trump called for him to be replaced -- that's creating a fictional "policy" cover because the power-politics "I'm in charge" gripe is too petty to be admitted.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly22h
So Thune and company having a temper tantrum over Trump's Paxton endorsement so he's using the weaponization fund as an excuse to once again not do his job.
Senate leadership is an absolute disgrace and every single one should be replaced.
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Disney Star Wars: Shit or Garbage?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Marblemouth and Gorp opens tonight.
The movie was previously tracking at a low $80 million for its three day debut. That's on the level of Soylo: A Soy Wars Soyry (as Ethan Van Sciver called it), which was the first Star Wars movie to lose money.
Note this weekend is a four day weekend, but that projection was for the actual Fri-Sat-Sun frame. They estimated that with Monday included, it would make $105 million for the four day weekend.
I mean: It's opening tonight so it's a five day "weekend," but the industry pretends that Thursday receipts are really Friday receipts. Which just another lie from the Industry of Lies.
But that's been revised. Downwards. Now it's projected to make $80 million... for all four days of the weekend.
Maybe $60 million for the three day weekend.
Disney doesn't like that headline, so now they're bragging about a $160 million opening weekend.
The catch? That $160 million is for the global debut, not the North American debut we always talk about.
So this is a big revision downwards which Disney is spinning, incredibly, as double the previous projection.
Disney looked around for a shill propaganda outlet that was desperate enough and corrupt enough to print up this corporate lie.
Gentlemen, you asked for a miracle. I give you Deadline.
'Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu' Hopes To Hyper-Space To $160M Global Opening Over Memorial Day Weekend -- Box Office PreviewBy Anthony D'Alessandro (Chief Corporate Shill)
The good news is that this Memorial Day weekend won't be the lowest post-Covid, and Lucasfilm/Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu won't open as low as Warner Bros' Furiosa did two years ago at this time with a $32.3M 4-day. The new hope is that the pic from director Jon Favreau co-written with EP Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor will meet or exceed its $80M 4-day tracking in North America.
Comparing this opening with the lowest Memorial Day opening ever -- from two years ago. Nice job of bar-lowering!!!
That all depends on whether families show up and push the first Star Wars film in seven years to a bigger number. Burger King is a promo partner on the pic, so hopefully Whoppers will have more influence on potential moviegoers than blue milk did for Luke Skywalker nearly a half-century ago.
Wow they have a fast-food promotional tie-in? That means it will make a huge amount of money -- No Star Wars film or other corporate IP slop has ever had a Burger King tie-in before!!!
The global outlook is $160M worldwide, with $80M of that from a 98% footprint offshore.
In other words, the global debut is juiced because most movies do not open in every country in the same weekend. In some cases, very big countries like Brazil or Japan or China or the UK have openings weeks after the North American debut.
But this is opening everywhere, except Korea.
The only territory not going this weekend is Korea. That start for the $165M net production would be slightly ahead of the global opening of 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story in like-for-likes. That box office low point in the franchise -- which went into theaters with a lot of behind-the-scenes melodrama (Lord & Miller were fired and the directing reins handed to Ron Howard -- posted a 4-day over Memorial Day weekend of $103M domestic and another $52M abroad.
Even shill critics are panning the movie. It is currently just over "rotten" at Rotten Tomatoes, but the bulk of reviews currently tabulated are from hand-picked shills and influencers. It will be Rotten within hours.
Most are complaining that it's "meh" or "mid" or a TV episode with a slightly larger budget (but still a cheap, TV look).
Those who are sick of masculine action hero and self-declared "Big Bougie Daddy Bitch" Pedro Pascal will be happy to know that he's not really in the movie much, because it's almost always his stunt-doubles in the armor when he has his helmet on. Which is 96% of the time.
They're also complaining that it is plainly for children, and by "children," I don't mean 12 year olds. I mean little children. I mean babies.
That's not a terrible reposition for the franchise, as it's lost all older fans and all teen fans. Maybe it's best to start over with a New Modern Audience that doesn't know tha Disney Star Wars is a pathetic joke yet.
But it's obviously going to result in a low take.. Only babies want to see movies about a baby for babies.
And if you want to see a good movie aimed at a younger crowd -- I keep hearing The Sheep Detectives is wonderful. Chris Gore and Allen Ng of Film Threat both praised it, only disagreeing about what audience it's for. Gore thought it was a kid's movie that was also interesting enough for adults, whereas Ng thought it was a good and "worthy" kid's film, but not really one that adults would like.
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Surprise! The DNC's "Autopsy" Is a Sham, a Deliberately Incomplete Document Left Unfinished Because Democrats Don't Dare Tell the Truth About Their Collapse
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You don't need an autopsy to know why the Democrats lost in 2024. No one does.
The Democrats know as well. The problem is, they are beholden to their extreme left wing, and they're beholden to the extreme left wing because the extreme left wing in the majority of the Democrat Party.
Democrats now know -- if they didn't before -- that transgender "science" is a propaganda lie spun up by WPATH, an organization funded by J.B. Pritzker's transgender brother "Jennifer" Pritzker. It was never true that "gender affirming surgery" reduces suicide -- and multiple studies now prove that beyond doubt. It was never true that "gender affirming" "medicine" improves mental health or well-being.
And on top that: The politics of it are horrible. It's a 20-80 issue.
But the Democrats cannot admit this because the 20% that is gonzo for gay and transgender extremism is the core of the activist class.
Likewise, the Democrats know that Obama's and then Biden's open border policy is absolutely toxic political poison. It's another 20-80 issue.
But the Democrats cannot admit this because the 20% that supports the Great Replacement is the core of the most partisan Democrat voters.
And they know they foisted a brain-damaged demented fool and corrupt grafter on the country in the form of Joe Biden. But they can't admit that because most of the Democrat Party -- and the media -- is in legal jeopardy should the entirety of their massive conspiracy be revealed.
So the "autopsy" is a sham. They never bothered to complete it and left most the issues that actually caused the loss entirely unmentioned.
Not underplayed. Not under-analyzed.
Unmentioned entirely.
The only fake conclusion the sham "autopsy" is certain of...?
Democrats and their media allies didn't go negative enough on the man they claimed was Hitler on a mission to destroy America and resurrect the Third Reich.
Trump got off so easy you guys!
Live Updates: Democrats' Draft Report on 2024 Loss Reopens Political Wounds Ahead of MidtermsAn incomplete examination of what went wrong for the Biden and Harris campaigns in 2024 was released after it had become an embarrassment for the Democratic National Committee.
The Democratic National Committee on Thursday released a draft of an autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 presidential campaign, highlighting a series of failures and placing blame for Kamala Harris's defeat partly on former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s political operation.
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The draft report, which is disorganized and leaves empty entire sections, blames both the Biden and Harris campaigns for failing to successfully drive a negative view of Mr. Trump. But it otherwise offers only vague or limited conclusions about the party's failings.
Mr. Martin had tapped a longtime ally, Paul Rivera, to oversee the creation of the autopsy. But Mr. Rivera's final product was "wasn't ready for prime time. Not even close," Mr. Martin wrote on Thursday. Atop each of the document's 192 pages is a bright red disclaimer that the D.N.C. "was not provided with the underlying sourcing, interviews, or supporting data for many of the assertions contained herein." (Mr. Rivera declined to comment.)
There is not a single mention of Mr. Biden's age, a regular concern of voters and Democratic officials throughout his presidency, nor of Israel and Gaza, an issue that dogged Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris in 2024 and has since fractured the party.
Still, it does include a number of revelations, including the conclusions of pollsters who found that a Trump ad attacking Ms. Harris for expressing support for taxpayer-funded surgery for transgender inmates had been highly effective.
So one single sub-issue regarding transgender extremism was mentioned. One specific issue about forcing taxpayers to pay for "transitions" of fucking criminals.
Limited conclusions: The draft report's findings were limited, often veering into political clichés and hard-to-follow explanations.
From 2020 to 2024, I documented Kamala Harris complaining a thousand times -- and leaking her complaint to the media anonymously -- that Biden had "failed to position her for success." This began, if I remember right, when he made her the Border Czar. He had failed to position her for success by giving her a tough assignment and not an easy one like making her the Black Women are Awesome Czar.
When she constantly embarrassed herself by being entirely unprepared at briefings and press appearances, she then blamed her staff for not adequately preparing her. Her staff, she complained to her media allies -- again as an anonymous source familiar with the Vice President's thoughts -- failed to position Kamala Harris for success.
Obviously she then complained throughout the campaign that Biden had Failed to Position Her for Success when he anointed her the new candidate.
I say all this because what key finding do you think made it into the sham autopsy?
But it argues that Mr. Biden's team failed to position Ms. Harris for success in the race after it became clear she would be the party's nominee and relied too heavily on an assumption that voters would reject Mr. Trump without making a sufficiently strong case for the vice president.
Biden called Trump Hitler in a nationally televised address, ranting while bathed in blood-red light.
Was that too subtle for the alcoholic and barren Coconut Kamala?
Again, we see that the sham autopsy refuses to find fault with Kamala Harris, too. She didn't lose. She just wasn't positioned for success by White Men.
This is her narrative, one that she's pissed into the media for four years.
And then it babbles about -- get this -- messaging.
Failed strategy: The Harris campaign's inability to diminish Mr. Trump's standing with voters was a "major failure," the report said. It suggested the Harris campaign should have been able to "remind voters of his incompetence," and found that a Trump campaign ad showing Ms. Harris expressing support for taxpayer-funded transition surgeries for transgender inmates had been particularly effective.
Midterm worries: Findings from the most recent New York Times/Siena poll underscore the concerns raised in the report that Democrats did not effectively make their case against Mr. Trump in 2024. Nearly 60 percent of Democratic supporters in the Times/Siena poll said they were not satisfied with how much the party was fighting back against Mr. Trump.
"This report is so stupid," say Democrats.
Democrats "have proven incapable of projecting strength, unity, and leadership, and voters have drifted away," Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, who authored the report but is not mentioned in the published version, writes. The autopsy was first released by CNN and shortly after published by the DNC.The incomplete report doesn't mention a number of key issues that continue to dog the Democratic Party, including the issue of the war in Gaza. In 192 pages, it sparsely touches on former President Joe Biden's decision to drop out.
It also appears to lack any formal conclusions about what went wrong.
Both the report and the process drew immediate, scathing criticism from prominent Democrats.
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"It feels like what the DNC is doing is cherry-picking the parts of it that it wants to actually release, that [are] less problematic for the party going forward, because most of the stuff that we're reading right now is ... not groundbreaking."
..."The report's so stupid, it's hard to make sense why something's in there and why it's not," another senior Democratic operative close to the process who was granted anonymity to speak candidly told POLITICO in an interview.
Awesomesauce: The "Quality Learing Center" Somali Pirates Exposed by Superstar Muckraker Nick Shirley Indicted on Federal Charges
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Do we need some good news?
I think we need some good news.
Now they will be prosecuted and imprisoned and later, I hope, denaturalized and deported.
The owner of a Minneapolis day care featured in a viral video by Nick Shirley exposing fraud has been federally charged with wire fraud and conspiracy for allegedly stealing over $4.6 million through false claims to federal nutrition and state childcare assistance programs.Fahima Egeh Mahamud, CEO of Future Leaders Early Learning near George Floyd Square, is charged with falsely claiming to serve thousands of meals through Feeding our Future while defrauding Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program.
The day care allegedly pocketed more than $4.6 million in fraudulent claims before closing in January following state investigations triggered by a viral Nick Shirley video in December.
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Trump Is Booting Illegal Aliens Out of Taxpayer-Funded Welfare Housing and I Am Here For It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Thomas Massie, Illegal Alien Simp and Friend of Illegal-Hiring Businesses, is sad. His pinecone is droopy.
Home prices are squeezing American family budgets. The median home price is up 60% since 2019, now five times the median household income. The country is short more than 4 million homes, and a record 22.6 million renter households are spending more than 30% of their income on rent. Housing costs have risen another 14% in just the last two years.While Americans are fighting for a place to call home, a recent Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Homeland Security investigation revealed major eligibility errors in HUD housing programs. HUD found nearly 6,000 confirmed ineligible tenants, and another 200,000 more tenants who have gone through zero eligibility verification. In addition, HUD identified 25,000 deceased tenants still living in taxpayer-funded housing units. These aren't likely empty units. Someone is wrongly receiving this benefit.
You'll be shocked to hear this, but Congress passed laws to restrict public housing to US citizens, but were conning the rubes as usual. On paper, illegal aliens weren't allowed.
In reality -- no one bothered checking, so illegal aliens were allowed.
But the rubes didn't know so the rubes couldn't complain.
Federal law is clear: Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act limits HUD housing assistance to U.S. citizens and eligible non-citizens. In addition, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 prohibits public welfare benefits from going to illegal aliens and requires HUD housing programs to verify immigration status at the point of application, now a nearly instantaneous process through the SAVE program. Yet HUD rules have systematically avoided this verification until now.
Instead of using the existing Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, HUD created two workarounds. The first is the "do not contend" provision, under which a tenant declares they do not contend their non-citizen status and receives prorated assistance anyway. This is blatantly illegal. The second workaround is an age exemption HUD fabricated 15 years ago under the Obama administration. Current regulations exempt anyone 62 or older from verification, but this has no basis in federal law.
It turns out, in contrast to federal law, the federal government has been incentivizing illegal immigration by offering taxpayer-subsidized housing along with other welfare programs by not using any verification to ensure benefits are going to only eligible individuals. Hundreds of thousands of tenants, including able-bodied adults, have spent years, even decades, in federally subsidized units still needing eligibility checks. This is exactly what has been prohibited for 30 years, and it's part of what's driving up housing prices today.
Thanks to President Trump and HUD Secretary Scott Turner, every housing authority in the country must finally verify eligibility. This is a strong step towards restoring public trust in HUD housing. For the first time, the system Congress mandated will be employed.
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Trump is sending the illegals back home and limiting illegals' access to loans and banking services.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing banks to more aggressively scrutinize illegal immigrants, closing a fiscal fence around American taxpayer interests and resources, and likely further incentivizing self-deportations."80% of voters believe that illegal immigration is bad for America, and by the way, the flip side of it is 80% believe that legal immigration is good for America," veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen told Just The News.
Trump's Tuesday order, titled "Restoring Integrity to America's Financial System", directs federal regulators and the Treasury to issue guidance strengthening banks' customer due diligence, identify red flags/suspicious activity linked to undocumented immigrants (such as Individual Taxpayer Identification Number misuse, payroll tax evasion, or off-the-books wages), and manage credit risks from extending loans or services to non-work-authorized individuals who may face deportation or wage loss.
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On limiting illegal immigrants' access to banking and financial products, the administration's stated goal is to reduce risks to the banking system -- such as people getting deported and then defaulting on loans or credit cards.
Banks are now encouraged by the Trump administration to be more careful with loans and services to those without work authorization, but the order does not require them to check every customer's citizenship status.
Meanwhile, the DOJ just hired 80 new immigration judges to speed up the pace of deportations.
"The Trump administration is committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps that is dedicated to restoring the rule to the law in our nation's immigration system," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. "Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history. This could only happen thanks to President Trump's decisive leadership and commitment to securing our borders. I also applaud EOIR's leadership team for helping facilitate these hiring efforts and recruiting highly qualified and talented personnel in record time."
Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportations, but has faced considerable legal pushback to his efforts to speedily remove large numbers of people from the country. The DHS has estimated that as many as 22 million illegal aliens were in the country when Trump took office.
Hello everyone! Happy Thursday.
Are you ready for the three day weekend?
The Morning Rant: An Islamist In Congress?
—CBD
The prospect of an American Islamist winning the Democrat primary for a New Jersey congressional seat would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. 750 New Jersey residents died on September 11th, 2001, which in and of itself should have made Hamawy's candidacy a punch line in every bar in New Jersey.
But the Democrat party, ably aided by a gerrymandered district, is interested in one thing, and that is power. Electing a terror-supporting, malpracticing physician as a United States congressman is perfectly reasonable in their singleminded quest for control. They have a few Islamists from other states: brother-f*cker Ilhan Omar, the shockingly ugly Rashida Tlaib, Lateefah Simon... But they are from states far from the tragedy of 9/11. New Jersey electing an Islamist is a bellweather of the rise of Muslim political power, and the huge chasm that has developed between mainstream America and the rabid left of the Democrat party.
Adam Hamawy, a Princeton plastic surgeon, is a frontrunner in a crowded Democratic primary to replace retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D.) in New Jersey's deep-blue 12th Congressional District—despite his years-long friendship with Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Muslim extremist cleric who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1993 bombing.
He is a run-of-the-mill Muslim political activist who is pro-Hamas, and has gotten a huge amount of support from a Palestinian PAC ($1,000,000 so far, with plans for another $1,000,000). If elected, he will vote reliably leftist, and vote against all American support for Israel, our only reliable ally in the war against militant Islam.
And completely unsurprising, he seems to be a shitty doctor!
But that isn't the worst part...he is credibly involved with, and a supporter of a man and a movement that took an active role in the murder of Americans as part of a religious/political philosophy that is incompatible with Western culture and American political philosophy.
That is how far from sanity the Democrat party has slid, and I see no signs that it will moderate. At least until the Republican party is purged of its RINOs, and voting is once again reserved for American citizens.
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